Needless to say we are experiencing a real CD crisis. Small independent labels can't afford traditional promotion anymore. Shipping promos to a hundred journalists in Italy can cost as much as € 250 + the cost of the CDs (around € 200-300) for a total cost of about € 500 per title. If you also have mailing lists in other countries the cost can easily reach € 1.000.Because of the sales loss, labels often don't need to print more than 500 CDs and it becomes uneconomical to send out half of the printed CDs.Therefore 30 Italian independent labels join forces to create Italian Jazz Music, a portal dedicated to their own productions, whose access is reserved to all journalists from all over the world. They can register, get a password and have access to the portal where they will find all albums including their front and back covers, information and audio (both in streaming and download version).In order to be informed and up-to-date with Italian indie jazz please register at www.ijm.it